Re: a brief story about your alternatives

Quoting Peter Masloch ([email protected]):
> You can setup syslog to write the logs to another server.
> Problem solved :-)
> Peter

And you can hack libutil and some other stuff to move the
/dev/ devices into a subdirectory (which can be MFS and
therefore writable).

And you can hack rc to deal with /var/run/ and some other
places that need writing to.

Or we can work together on it.

> > Leevon Reaves said:
> > > I was at the time working on a large project involving 
> > small embedded
> > > routers.    In my professional opinion openbsd on soekris 
> > is awesome.
> > 
> > That's what you would have got when/if your Embsd order 
> > arrived.  As far
> > as the hardware is concerned, anyway.  So not really an 'alternative'!
> > 
> > > I highly reccomend the soekris products, which can be  
> > purchased from
> > > www.soekris.com.   openbsd proper can fit on a 128meg cf  with 64 m
> > > left over....  thats what I personally ended up doing.
> > 
> > Except that the stock OpenBSD likes a writeable /var/ ... and 
> > puts logs
> > in it.  Your Compact-Flash device will die after a while.  They can't
> > cope with being written to a lot.  Are you aware of this limitation?
> > 
> > > the only piece of advice I have for anyone is to not 
> > undersetimate how
> > > hard it is to get cf geometry correct.
> > 
> > Yes, that is useful advice, thanks.  I think it has been pointed out a
> > few times on the list so far, but I'm not sure if it has found its way
> > into any documentation yet.